Hello!!

Hey there everyone! Hope you are all well. I am back from a long and much-needed hiatus from blogging. I missed it though!! Tried to keep up with the blogs I follow though so I haven't completely lost touch!!

I am really bummed though! I had hoped to share some pictures with you and for some reason I cannot get them off of my camera and on to the computer. Whateva! I will figure it out and post some soon.

Sooooo, what's been going on with me you ask? Ok maybe you didn't ask, but I'm going to tell anyhow. We just got back from a weeklong vacation. We started out on Friday the 17th driving north to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We were there to celebrate my father's 80th birthday. My sister has a home on Lake Michigan, so 21 of us made the treck at one point or another, and it was wonderful celebrating in true "Moose" fashion. Moose is my dad's nickname, and he LOVES to party!! While there, we went to Mackinaw City, Travis and his friend Austin went to Mackinaw Island, we met up with a girl I work with who lives about 1/2 hour from my sister. I know, right???? Who lives up in the U.P.??? We also visited the town of Petoskey, which is just a quaint little seaside town. Besides that, we spent alot of evenings down by the beach where we built fires and, yes I must admit, downed refreshments.....

We left Michigan on Wednesday and drove 8 hours home. Did a few loads of laundry till 1 a.m. and then woke up early to leave for another 10 hour trip South to South Carolina. OMG YES, we are NUTS! John's son recently had a baby and we have been dying to see him, and so, well no time like the present right? We got there in time to meet them for dinner and see the precious little guy, along with John's granddaughter Madison and his son and daughter-in-law. Basically we just hung out while there, and ate way too much. It was a wonderful visit! John and Taylor are awesome hosts and ahhhh, what I wouldn't give to snuggle on that little baby again!!

So I definitely gained weight while on vacation, which actually sucks because I DID NOT NEED TO GAIN WEIGHT!! So I'm on a diet. Struggling but I'm workin it the best I can. Please keep me in your thoughts, because I really need to watch right now!! I swear to God I have no willpower.

There are some other things going on personally that I will talk about later this week, but for now I want to keep those to myself. Actually just till tomorrow, when I tell the people I have to tell and then I can tell the world! Good things......

Poor Jackson Gepperheimer was in the kennel for 10 days, bless his sweet little heart!! He was so darn happy to see us, and I could not wait to see his little self! He has been gettin lots of love and scritchin today!

We are T minus 4-weeks and counting till Travis leaves for school. I can't believe it is here already, and I really need to get busy and start getting stuff together!

Well that's about all I can think of for now! Hope you all have a wonderful day. I have missed the blogosphere. It's good to be back!!

Weekend Wrap up ~

Well of course I am behind on my posting again. I swear, with working a full time job and a part time job, and then all the must-see TV, by Thursday I'm spent. I never got to do Think Thin Thursday, so I'll do that right now.

Soooo, this week at WW I lost 1.3 pounds. I was a little bit bummed! OK don't get me wrong. On one hand, I'm thrilled. This was my 3rd weigh in and 1.3 pounds gone is 1.3 pounds gone. But I skipped the 2 pound losses. Went from 3.6 down to 1.3. I didn't want to be out of the 2's already.

My goal this week is to up the exercise a little bit and drink my water, which I still struggle with. Speaking of that, we are having our family Biggest Loser competition, and I ended up joining in on another one. My SIL's SIL is having one. We had to pay on that one! But I want to win that 400 buckaroo's when it's all said and done!

Thanks to Bridgette over at the Not So Blog Blog for Think Thin Thursdays!!

Secondly, I missed Aloha Friday!! I always like Aloha Friday because lots of people come and visit my blog and leave bloggy comments!! I LOVE IT!!! Feel free to follow when you stop by peeps!!

So here we go......

My question for Aloha Friday is this....

Do you have any vacation plans for 2009 yet?

Me, Mr. Beachbum and Junior Beachbum are all going to the upper peninsula in Michigan in July. We are going to spend the week at my sisters house in Naubinway MI. Can I wait??? Negatory! It is Papa Beach Bum's 80th Birthday!!! The whole family, all 21 of us are going up there to celebrate. My sister's house is right on Lake Michigan. It is like the ocean, with pine trees instead of palm trees, so I will be in heaven!!

Stop by An Island Life and play along!!

On other news Mr. Beachbum and I went to see the movie Gran Torino with Clint Eastwood last night. I absolutely loved it!! I recommend for anyone to see it. Excellent movie!!

Also last night I was a big girl....well as far as mommies go. I actually let my son go up to the University of Toledo with his friend Paul and stay all night. Paul is a pretty responsible kid and Junior Beachbum is too so I just thought heck, he will be in college in 6 months himself. Might as well let him go. I guess I just felt good about it. They did good, although they did not want to get their bums out of bed and Travis was ALMOST late for work, but he wasn't and it all worked out and I will probably let him do it again.

Well that's about it for my weekend! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend yourselves!!